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Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
I try hard not to follow recency bias, but this has been one crazy ass midterm. Consider, in no particular order: (P.S. I didn’t start the fire, it was always burning)
REDISTRICTING WARS: Referendums pass in CA and VA, courts rescind VA, scramble primaries; Still not clear is MO Cong. Winners can be seated
ME SEN: Graham Platner drops out; speed firehouse/convention primary held for replacement (don’t forget Janet Mills dropping but not dropping?)
WI GOV: David Crowley drops out to stop socialist candidate then gets back in and pulls stunning primary upset over F. Hong.
AK SEN: The two Dan Sullivans
CA GOV: Rotating frontrunners leads to multiple dropouts, Swawell may need a criminal defense atty; somehow Becerra is GOV-in-Waiting
TX SEN: Trump lets Ken Paxton happen
NC SEN: Trump chases out Tillis
FL SEN: DSA candidate upsets estab pick spending no conventional TV money
SC SEN: Lindsey Graham dies; special primary/runoff is held coronating his sister
NYC Cong. Races: Mamdani-led DSA sweeps
KS SEN: Senator goes rogue on his campaign, makes his own disastrous response TV ad
MI SEN: Where to begin: fake poll drives one candidate to drop; Dem primary is a nailbiter; losing candidate endorses other party’s nominee with 72 hours to go.
MI O8: Trump endorsed candidate (Amir Hassan) loses primary to candidate who dropped out (Tom Smith).
TRUMP: Becomes even odder on the trail, from “powerful bottoms” to dismissing voter concerns. 80yo behaves like a less than healthy 80yo
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
I'm one of the 63% of Jewish-Americans opposed to the current Israeli government. The ad is still antisemitic.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
63% of Jewish-Americans are opposed to the current Israeli government and 61% believe Israel has committed war crimes. So, saying an ad criticizing Israel’s war crimes is somehow against Jews sounds like a dual loyalty trope. It is empirically incorrect and helps spread antisemitism. Very disappointing.
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
We're all paying the price after Republicans increased the cost of living - look no further than an order at Waffle House.
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
OBAMA: The president wasn't even mad. About The Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about The Cheesecake Factory. He took great umbrage. He said I didn't understand the work of the artisans in the White House.
They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke.
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
I never used the word "right".
Jews have a state because they accepted the Partition Plan and spent the last 80 years building and defending their nation.
The Arabs who lived in the region don't have a state because they turned down the Partition Plan, attacked Israel, lost, turned down every other offer for a state since then, kept attacking, kept losing, and continued to spend their money on rockets and terror tunnels and not on building their society.
The truth hurts, but that's what it is.
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
I have spoken out against anti-Muslim hate in the Michigan Senate race. I will speak out just as loudly when the target is Jewish people.
Let me state a little-known fact: ISRAEL GETS LESS THAN 0.1 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET. That’s less than one tenth of a percent!
But there is an ad running that tells voters they can’t afford groceries because the United States gives so much money to Israel. In reality, the United States spends money in and on countries all around the world – but this ad singles out the Jewish state. The ad is as dangerous as it is dishonest.
You can disagree with how the United States spends money abroad. But telling hungry families that the Jewish state is the reason they are suffering is wrong and shameful.
Blaming Jews for people’s problems is an old story. Anybody who has read the last century of history knows where it leads. It is a dark pathway.
This ad is anti-Jewish hate and should come down immediately. Abdul El-Sayed should denounce it today.
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
Reuters: US APPEALS COURT DENIES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S REQUEST TO STOP CALIFORNIA FROM COUNTING MAIL BALLOTS FROM ALLEGED NONCITIZENS
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
The U.S. spends $8.53 billion a year on its military presence in Germany.
It spends $5.69 billion a year on its presence in Japan.
It spends $4.25 billion a year on its presence in South Korea.
But we only ever hear about military aid to Israel.
Isn't that weird?
Annual federal budget
Medicaid: $668 Billion
SNAP: $101 Billion
Aid to Israel: $3.8 Billion
($3.3B in grants to purchase US-manufactured defense equipment & $500M for defense programs)
Money going to Israel is not causing the cost of bananas to go up ffs.
Blaming America’s problems on Israel isn’t simply criticism of foreign aid.
That’s why you don’t care about the billions of aid going to Egypt($1.3b annually), Jordan ($1b annually) and Ukraine($119B). Or about US spending billions on military forces defending Europe, South Korea and Japan. Why?
Israel is central to the identity of most American Jews.
Singling out Israel as the cause of American suffering is a thinly veiled attempt to turn Americans against their Jewish compatriots, portraying their support for Israel as evidence of divided loyalties and their political influence as a threat to the interests of their fellow Americans.
It is an old antisemitic tool dressed up as a foreign-policy argument.
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state. It does nothing to help Michigan Democrats win up and down the ballot in eight days. Do we need to lower costs by building more homes, securing people’s health care, and creating a fairer federal tax code? Yes, we do!! How we do so is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world. I want to see Democrats succeed at every level, and that means keeping our focus on lowering costs for Michigan families and reining in this out-of-control President.
New @RebellionPac ad dropping in Michigan. We have to suffer here at home, so Israel can get all its wars. That’s why they buy politicians like Mike Rogers. He promised to serve Israel “unconditionally,” but never made that promise to you.
THIS! It’s so absurd.
FACT: The annual funding Israel receives from the US amounts to less than one-tenth of 1% of the federal budget. Less than 1/10th of 1%.
FACT: That annual funding would cover only a few hours of federal health care spending. A few hours.
Yet politicians who specialize in scapegoating would have you believe that Israel is responsible for America’s affordability crisis.
Like every form of scapegoating before it, it is a dangerous lie.
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
FACT: The annual funding Israel receives from the US amounts to less than one-tenth of 1% of the federal budget. Less than 1/10th of 1%.
FACT: That annual funding would cover only a few hours of federal health care spending. A few hours.
Yet politicians who specialize in scapegoating would have you believe that Israel is responsible for America’s affordability crisis.
Like every form of scapegoating before it, it is a dangerous lie.
How crazy is it that Fox/GOP is trying to make the Cheesecake Factory one-liner a thing after all the shit that Trump has and continues to spew. Sorry but you gave up your right for outrage when you stayed silent on all that. #IDontMakeTheRules
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
Dear @AGToddBlanche: A federal judge called the trump DOJ’s argument “frivolous” and ordered the reinstatement of prosecutor Maurene Comey.
This is what happens when you try to enforce the rule of trump instead of the rule of law. You get smacked down.
November is coming.
🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump DOJ ILLEGALLY fired prosecutor Maurene Comey, ordering retroactive reinstatement and backpay.
The judge ripped the DOJ’s defense as bordering on “frivolous” and rejected its sweeping claims of executive power. meidasnews.com/news/trump-do…
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
It is kinda funny that Bill Maher keeps trying to be Trump’s friend while Trump continues to shit all over him on a regular basis.
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
That's what genocide looks like
This 260-year demographic timeline of Poland’s Jewish population reveals the devastating scale of the Holocaust. Source: buff.ly/MEHJWla
The fact that Bill glazed Trump so hard after WH dinner number 2 and this is the thanks he got is so satisfying, ngl. 😂
The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.
ALT Screenshot of a very long Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), shrunk into a thin strip in the center of a gray card. The text reads: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement — But that’s all gone. It’s not “HOT” anymore! Maher’s friend and business associate, Chuck LaBella, was also a friend of mine, worked on The Top Hit Show, The Apprentice, as a “gofer” and, because of the success of that show, Number One and Top Rated on many weeks, with the Finale’ being among the Top Shows of the Year, he was automatically and quickly brought up through the Ranks of NBC, along with everyone else associated with that Historic “Happening.” The Success of the Apprentice was so great that everyone partook — It built many careers, and that is a wonderful thing. (continues)
Laura ✌🏼 retweeted
This is disgusting, blatant antisemitism. The vitriol of Cenk and his nephew are going to cost us this seat. El-Sayed should disavow this ad!
